November 02, 2008

'Farmer of the Year' vs. 'Home of the Year'

There are many competitions where different titles "of the Year' are assigned. One thing that somehow came to my notice this year was prize money size for 2 such competitions in Estonia.
One competition was 'Home of the Year 2008' (Aasta kodu 2008) organized by the magazine 'Kodu ja Aed' ('Home and Garden'). The prize is awarded for creating nice home with good interior, good room planing and everything what goes with it. The winner got prize money of 50000 EEK (approx. 3200 EUR).
The other competition was 'Farmer of the Year 2008' (Aasta Põllumees 2008) organized by Estonian Chamber of Agriculture and Commerce. The winner got prize money of 30000 EEK (approx. 1900 EUR).
I think this is inadequate taking into account all the effort what is necessary to became the best farmer in comparison to creating just nice interior for oneself. I don't want to underestimate the importance of nice home, and of course it takes time and money to create it. Anyway, in my opinion the farmer should get more than somebody who created nice home! Of course, I understand that it depends on the sponsors and organizers. It's interesting to notice that both prize moneys where sponsored by banks: Swedbank for home and SEB for agriculture. So, I have to conclude that banks have evaluated that they get more profit from home owners (or mortgage takers) than from farmers.

And here is one photo which is totally unrelated to home owners or farmers. One day in this autumn we went to pick mushrooms. I have to admit that choice of the forest was not the best for mushrooms as I didn't find any edible mushroom. However, it was well spent time anyway as there was nice view to the Baltic Sea, there were lots of cowberries, and also there was this nice mushroom.

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